Winner (1977, Autonomous Technology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 77), in defense of technology determinism, cautioned against ‘throwing out the baby with the methodological bathwater’. His concern was that in so doing STS research would underplay, or be unable to account for, the effects that technology change does have on society. We similarly now find that powerful explanatory concepts like ‘structural‐discourse’ have been largely expunged from the contemporary STS analytical lexicon; with consequences, we believe, for our ability as researchers to interpret and explain the rapid change we see in contemporary work places. In this paper we make the case for the continued use of a strong structural‐discourse theory alongside other emergent forms of discourse. We show how workers, responding to conflicting and different types of discourse, produce varying hybrid responses—actions that react to and combine elements of emergent and structural discourses. Our work considers the implications of this finding for contemporary STS theory.

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在各种讨论之间陷入困境：工作中技术使用的混合选择

捍卫技术决定论的获胜者（1977年，马萨诸塞州剑桥，自治技术：麻省理工学院出版社，77岁）告诫不要“用方法论的浴水扔掉婴儿”。他担心这样做STS研究会轻描淡写，或者是无法解释的效果是技术变革呢在社会上。现在，我们类似地发现，诸如“结构性话语”之类的强有力的解释概念已从当代的STS分析词典中被大量删除。我们相信，这样做会带来后果，因为我们有能力解释和解释我们在当代工作场所看到的快速变化。在本文中，我们为继续使用强大的结构性话语理论以及其他新兴形式的话语提供了理由。我们展示了工人如何应对冲突的和不同类型的话语，从而产生不同的混合反应，即对新兴和结构性话语要素进行反应和结合的动作。我们的工作考虑了这一发现对当代STS理论的意义。